Handle for coffins



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,973. Patented Jan.20,1891.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MAX BREMER, OF NEIV BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS.

HANDLE FOR COFFINS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 444,973, dated January 20, 1891.

Application filed September 25, 1890. Serial No. 366,073. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, MAX BREMER, of New Bedt'ord, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Casket-Handle, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, in which- Figure 1 is a lengthwise section of one style of one handle. Fig. 2 is a like section of another style. I

Casket-handles to suit the trade must be ornate, sufficiently strong, and not too expensive; and the object of my invention is to provide handles uniting these three requirements.

My invention consists in a handle composed of two arms and a bar or hand-piece, each arm having a ring at its end through which the bar passes in the usual way; but in my handle there are two or more ornamental sleeves between the two rings.

In the drawings, A A are the arms, which are of the usual constructionthat is, each arm is hinged to a lug a and each arm has upon it a ring a. The bar B is passed through the rings a and properly secured to them, commonly by screws 0. In my improved handle the barB is formed of a rod I), usually of wood, and two or more ornamental sleeves 1) D which fit upon the rod 1) between the rings a. The sleeve 5' is shown as a swell symmetrical with the swell b which may be either integral with rod 7) or a sleeve like 1), this being a mere question of cost; but the middle swell b is a sleeve usually of metal, celluloid, or like ornamental material, or when of wood is covered with a covering which is ornamental and forms a contrast with the covering of the swells 1) b the characteristic feature of my invention being that the handle between the rings a is divided into two distinct parts I) b by a third dissimilar part b and in order to attain this result practically gral when the parts I), b, and b are all of wood covered with a textile fabric, as in the handle shown in the drawings. \Vhen Z) and b are of metal, celluloid,or the like, they will of course be separate from b, which is in practice a rod of wood; but, as shown, I) is a wooden sleeve covered with a textile material, and b is a swell turned on Z1 and covered with the same material. is recessed at each end, so that it overlaps the end .of the swells b 19*. This is desirable, even if all these parts I) b b be of ornamental material, such as metal, celluloid, or the like; but is especially so when the swells b b are of wood covered with textile fabric, for then the recessed ends of the swells Z) 12 cover the raw edges of the textile fabric.

In one style of my handle (that shown in the drawings) 1) and b are of wood and covered with broadcloth, plush, or the like, and b is a sleeve of polished metal; but in other styles b and b are both of wood, Z) and also b being covered with, say, broadcloth, and b with satin or some other covering contrasting with the covering of I) and 12 In this case b may be integral with rod 1), when I) and 19 must be sleeves fitted upon rod b.

That I claim as my invention is The improved casket handle above described, composed of two arms provided with rod-receiving rings, a rod mounted in the rings, and two sleeves upon the rod and between the rings and of outer diameters greater than the inner diameters of the rings, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

MAX BREMER.

Witnesses:

J. E. 'MAYNADIER, JOHN R. SNOW.

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